December 29th, 2017 | Updated on June 29th, 2022
1. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.-Oscar Wilde
2.You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening,And live like it’s heaven on earth.-William W. Purkey
3. Be the change that you wish to see in the world.-Mahatma Gandhi
4. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.-Eleanor Roosevelt
5. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.-Mahatma Gandhi
6. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.-Martin Luther King Jr.
7. Without music, life would be a mistake.-Friedrich Nietzsche
8. We accept the love we think we deserve.-Stephen Chbosky
9. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.-Marilyn Monroe
10. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.-Albert Einstein
11. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.-Oscar Wilde
12. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.-Bil Keane
13. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.-Neil Gaiman
14. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.-Thomas A. Edison
15. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.-Elie Wiesel
17. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.-Albert Einstein
18. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…-Dr. Seuss
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20. It is never too late to be what you might have been.-George Eliot
21. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.-Maya Angelou
22. Everything you can imagine is real.-Pablo Picasso
23. You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.-C.S. Lewis
24. To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.-J.K. Rowling
25. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.-George Bernard Shaw
26. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.-Theodore Roosevelt
27. Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.-Shel Silverstein
28. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closeddoor that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.-Helen Keller
29. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston S. Churchill
30. So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.-Stephen Chbosky
31.You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.-John Lennon
32. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.-Paulo Coelho
33. We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.-Veronica Roth
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35. It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.-Lewis Carroll
36. What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.-Maya Angelou
37. A person’s a person, no matter how small.-Dr. Seuss
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39. It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.-Paulo Coelho
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41. You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.-Nicholas Sparks
42. Well-behaved women seldom make history.-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
44. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!-Audrey Hepburn
46. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.-Mahatma Gandhi
47. I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.-Herbert Bayard Swope
48. Do what you feel in your heart to be right â for youâll be criticized anyway.-Eleanor Roosevelt
49. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww!-Jack Kerouac
50. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.-Dalai Lama XIV
51. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
52. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.-John Green
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54. Don’t think or judge, just listen.-Sarah Dessen
55. Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.-Gustave Flaubert
56. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.-Margaret Mead
58. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.-Nicholas Klein
59. Whatever you are, be a good one.-Abraham Lincoln
60. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse. -Thomas Szasz
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62. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.-C.S. Lewis
63. I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
64. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than acts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.-Robert Fulghum
65. May you live every day of your life. -Jonathan Swift
66. You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.-A.A. Milne
66. Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?-L.M. Montgomery
67. If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.-Rick Riordan
68. You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.-C. JoyBell C.
69. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein
70. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.-John Lennon
71. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.- Jalaluddin Rumi
72. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.And sings the tune without the words. And never stops at all.-Emily Dickinson
73. Always do what you are afraid to do.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
74. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.-George Orwell
75. Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.-Martin Luther King Jr.
76. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.-Martin Luther King Jr.
77. I am a part of all that I have met.-Alfred Tennyson
78. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.-Maya Angelou
79. There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.” Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.-Alexandre Dumas
80. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at- all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.-Ayn Rand
81. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.-Martin Luther King Jr.
82. It is so hard to leaveâuntil you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.-John Green
83. Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.-Arthur Schopenhauer
84. If you’re reading this…Congratulations, you’re alive.If that’s not something to smile about,then I don’t know what is.-Chad Sugg
85. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.-Haruki Murakami
86. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..-John Milton
87. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.-Paulo Coelho
88. Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.-Lloyd Alexander
89. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”)-Maya Angelou
90. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
91. And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.-Haruki Murakami
92. If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.-Martin Luther King Jr.The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.-J.R.R. Tolkien
93. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.-Maya Angelou
94. When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.-Arthur Conan Doyle
95. Turn your wounds into wisdom.-Oprah Winfrey
96. Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.-Isaac Asimov
97. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.-William Shakespeare
98. And, in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.-Paul McCartney
99. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.-Suzanne Collins
100. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.-Mahatma Gandhi
101. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?-Mother Teresa
102. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.-Eleanor Roosevelt
103. It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.-Dale Carnegie
104. I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.-Agatha Christie
105. War is peace.Freedom is slavery.Ignorance is strength.-George Orwell
106. One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.-Sigmund Freud
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108. If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.-Haruki Murakami
109. I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.-Maya Angelou
110. We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it is’ until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problemsthe ones that make you truly who you arethat we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it’s got to be the right wrong personsomeone you lovingly gaze upon and think, This is the problem I want tohave.I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.-Andrew Boyd
111. None but ourselves can free our minds.-Bob Marley
112. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.-Robert Louis Stevenson
113. Only in the darkness can you see the stars.-Martin Luther King Jr.
114. Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.-Albert Schweitzer
115. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.-Mark Twain
116. A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.-Max Lucado
117. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.-Walt Disney Company
118. When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he’s everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he’s not easy to spot; he’s really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.-Taylor Swift
119. A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.-Leonardo da Vinci
120. Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.-Lance Armstrong
121. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.-Rabindranath Tagore
122. Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patients with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.-Lao Tzu
123. The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.-Steve Maraboli
124. Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.-Cornelia Funke
125. The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.-Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
126. I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.- Santosh Kalwar
127. The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.-John F. Kennedy
128. People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.-A.A. Milne
129. The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.-Jim Morrison
130. All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.-Francis of Assisi
131. You never fail until you stop trying.-Albert Einstein
132. Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.-Louis Amour
133. If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.-C. JoyBell C.
134. Dare to Be: When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light. When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it. When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway. When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back. When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some. When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going. When times are tough, dare to be tougher. When love hurts you, dare to love again. When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal. When another is lost, dare to help them find the way. When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand. When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile. When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too. When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best. Dare to be the best you can At all times, Dare to be!-Steve Maraboli
135. You’re off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So… get on your way!-Dr. Seuss
136. Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.- Jonathan Safran Foer
137. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.-Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
138. Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.- JoyBell C.
139. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
140. Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…-Alfred Tennyson
141. One love, one heart, one destiny.-Bob Marley
145. To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour.- William Blake
146. It’s no